Patents Assigned to Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.
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Patent number: 9088494Abstract: A method of avoiding packet fragmentation. The method includes receiving a data packet belonging to a data connection, determining whether the received data packet was fragmented or determining whether the received data packet is expected to be fragmented on the way to its destination and registering the data connection of the received packet in a list of connections that carried packets that were fragmented or were expected to be fragmented.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel LTD.Inventors: Emek Sadot, Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein
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Patent number: 9009585Abstract: A method of creating a software wizard. The method involves receiving, by a computer, an instruction to create a wizard, displaying by the computer one or more forms, created before receiving the instruction to create the wizard, receiving by the computer one or more customization instructions of at least one of the displayed one or more forms and storing a file defining a wizard including the displayed one or more forms as customized by the one or more customization instructions.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignees: Avaya Technology LLC, Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Ronen Ben Chetrit, Dan Gluskin, Nimrod Dezent, Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Kurt H. Haserodt
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Patent number: 8990396Abstract: An improved caching method comprising: (a) employing circuitry to identify and analyze a plurality of data streams, each of said data streams resulting from a request to access a same content item stored in a cache; (b) calculating an initial access interval for said content item based upon said analyzing; and (c) adjusting a data transfer rate in at least one of said data streams in order to reduce said initial access interval to a reduced access interval.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Shlomo Biton, Dan Gluskin
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Patent number: 8763155Abstract: A method of controlling access to a client over a computer network includes associating a user interface element with at least one tag and defining an access permission rule for a client, as a function of one or more tags, the function including at least one OR, NOT or inequality condition. The method further includes receiving a request of the client to access the user interface element and allowing the client to access the user interface element only if the tags of the user interface element meet the condition of the access permission rule.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Ronen Ben Chetrit, Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein
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Patent number: 8571061Abstract: A method for bidirectional gating between low parallelity devices in a network and a remote server with a higher parallelity capability. The method comprises: (a) intercepting a plurality of requests for a same content item stored on a remote server from a plurality of devices, said requests in a low parallelity protocol; (b) storing said requests as stored requests; (c) translating one of said requests to a high parallelity protocol to produce a translated request and relaying said translated request to said remote server; (d) additionally intercepting a response to said translated request from said remote server in, said response in said higher parallelity protocol; (e) additionally translating said response to said low parallelity protocol to produce a translated response and storing said translated response; and (f) filling each of said stored requests with said translated response.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Avaya Communications Israel Ltd.Inventors: Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Shlomo Biton, Dan Gluskin
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Publication number: 20130117455Abstract: A method of connecting a client to a server by a load balancer associated with a plurality of servers. The method includes establishing a first connection for transmission of packets between the load balancer and the client, selecting a server to service the client, and splicing the first connection with a second connection between the load balancer and the selected server, the second connection being established before the first connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: AVAYA COMMUNICATION ISRAEL LTDInventors: Lior Shabtay, Dan Beiser, Ofir Friedman, Eyal Amitai, Guy Kronental
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Patent number: 7970876Abstract: A method of selecting, by a global server load balancer (GSLB), a server to represent a virtual server hosted by a plurality of servers. The method includes receiving, by the GSLB, values of one or more communication parameters of paths between at least one test unit and at least two servers from the plurality of servers, receiving, by the GSLB, a request to establish a connection with the virtual server from a client, selecting a test unit from the at least one test unit to represent the client, and selecting one of the plurality of servers to represent the virtual server before the client, responsive to the values of the one or more parameters for paths between the selected test unit and the at least two servers of the selected test units.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Emek Sadot, Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein
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Patent number: 7940793Abstract: A media application server, comprising a network interface and a processor adapted to establish voice connections with opposite end devices and to perform on the connections at least one media application task for signals of a plurality of different signal formats, the processor being adapted to establish the connection in a negotiation procedure in which it advertises itself as supporting fewer than the plurality of signal formats.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel LtdInventors: Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Zvika Perry, Yaron Pdut, Gordon R. Brunson
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Patent number: 7924837Abstract: A method of determining local multicast information of a local area network (LAN), comprising dividing the LAN to a number of segments larger than the number of virtual LANs (VLANs) in the network and creating a layer-3 multicast routing table, which relates to each of the segments separately.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2000Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Lior Shabtay, Benny Rodrig
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Patent number: 7920577Abstract: A method of handling broadcast packets, which are for a single network unit. The method includes receiving, by a network device, a packet, having a broadcast address, but directed to a single network unit and forwarding the packet through a plurality of ports of the network device, but not through at least one port of the device through which the packet was not received.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventor: Emek Sadot
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Patent number: 7873012Abstract: A method of reducing tunneling in a wireless packet network. The method includes defining a home access point for a client station, determining that the client station is being serviced by an access point different from the home access point, deciding if the client station should change its home access point to the access point from which the client station receives service and initiating a change of the home access point of the client station, if so decided.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignees: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd., Proxim Inc., Motorola Inc.Inventors: Emek Sadot, Leigh Michael Chinitz, Timothy Wilson
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Patent number: 7774438Abstract: A method of self-configuring a network device. The method includes transmitting non-unique structure information of a network device, from the network device to a configuration server, receiving, by the network device from the configuration server, one or more configuration parameter values responsive to the transmitted structure information and configuring the network device with the configuration parameter values.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Dan Gluskin, Pesah Spector
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Patent number: 7085875Abstract: A modular switch, comprising a plurality of backplane sub-buses; a plurality of cards which are each allocated one or more of the backplane sub-buses; and a controller which dynamically allocates the backplane sub-buses to the plurality of cards, based on the bandwidth needs of the cards. Preferably, the bandwidth capacity of substantially all the backplane sub-buses is less than the sum of the maximal transmission bandwidth capacities of the cards.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2000Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Nir Yona, Yosef Ben Moshe, Dori Yitzhaki, Michael Feldman, Gidi Navon, Jacob Shimoni
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Patent number: 7031297Abstract: A method of performing policy enforcement by a switch, including receiving a plurality of frames, examining at least some of the received frames to determine whether they require non-default policy enforcement according to pre-programmed policy rules which pertain to at least one protocol, and forwarding, with default policy handling, at least some of the received frames which belong to the protocol to which the rules pertain, regardless of the policy enforcement they require.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2000Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Lior Shabtay, Yaron Nachman, Ofir Friedman, Eyal Amitai
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Patent number: 7027406Abstract: A method of managing connectivity between an end-device and one of a plurality of bridging-devices connected to the end-device. The method includes transmitting test messages by each of the bridging-devices, transmitting test messages by the end-device, determining, in each of the bridging-devices, with which of the other devices there is an operative connection, based on the test messages the bridging-device receives and determining, in each of the bridging-devices, whether a port leading to the end-device should be in a forwarding or blocking state responsive to the determination of the operative connections.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Lior Shabtay, Moshe Island, Nachman Cohen, Guy Kronenthal, Michael Saltzman, Gidi Navon, Ron Bin
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Patent number: 6928049Abstract: A method of managing connectivity of a cluster of bridging-devices including a plurality of links. The method includes pre-designating at least one of the links as a redundant link which is blocked when all the other links are operative and connected in accordance with a predetermined scheme, determining connectivity data on the connectivity of the links of the cluster, and activating or blocking the pre-designated redundant at least one link responsive to the connectivity data.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Lior Shabtay, Amir Gonen, Moshe Island, Guy Kronenthal, Evgenia Jenny Shteinberg, Ygdal Naouri
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Patent number: 6781953Abstract: A method of distributing a broadcast frame within a network. The method includes receiving the broadcast frame in a bridging-device of the network through a receiving port and forwarding the frame to a group of bridging-devices selected responsive to whether the receiving port is an internal port which leads to bridging-devices included in a common cluster with the receiving bridging-device.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1999Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventor: Ygdal Naouri
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Patent number: 6724734Abstract: A method of implementing a distributed algorithm which is based on sending Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs) only between neighboring bridging-devices in a network. The method includes sending BPDUs from a first bridging-device of the network to at least one non-neighboring second bridging-device, and determining a characteristic of the network responsive to the BPDUs.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1999Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Avaya Communication Israel, Ltd.Inventors: Lior Shabtay, Benny Rodrig
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Publication number: 20040047336Abstract: A method of managing connectivity of a cluster of bridging-devices including a plurality of links. The method includes pre-designating at least one of the links as a redundant link which is blocked when all the other links are operative and connected in accordance with a predetermined scheme, determining connectivity data on the connectivity of the links of the cluster, and activating or blocking the pre-designated redundant at least one link responsive to the connectivity data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd.Inventors: Lior Shabtay, Amir Gonen, Moshe Island, Guy Kronenthal, Evgenia Jenny Shteinberg, Ygdal Naouri