[SatNews] Utah Scientific announced the company has been awarded a U.S. patent on its UTAH-400 iP router, which gives broadcasters real-time, on-the-fly control of port priority, port speed, and security groups on Ethernet networks. A 24-port managed-gigabit Ethernet workgroup router, the award-winning UTAH-400 iP improves efficiency any time that high-bit rate streaming video or large video files move over Ethernet. The United States Patent and Trademark Office assigned Patent No. 7,756,118 for a video switching system using a prioritized common network to Utah Scientific Inc. The inventors are listed as Tom Harmon, Roger Thornblad, Jeff Levie, and Garn Morrell. With its built-in control panel, the UTAH-400 iP uniquely enables real-time network changes in response to traffic conditions so that high-priority items can be moved quickly, while lower-priority items wait their turn. The router also makes it possible for parameters such as bandwidth allocation, QOS, and VLAN assignments to be controlled easily in response to network needs. The router also supports port speed control, which helps troubleshoot network operations besides allowing control of traffic from nodes using too much bandwidth. To protect sensitive content, the UTAH-400iP's control panel makes possible on-the-fly partitioning of a network into smaller virtual networks or security groups. Utah Scientific is at Stand 2.B20 at IBC2010.