Patents by Inventor Bruce E. Alexander

Bruce E. Alexander has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6272120
    Abstract: A multi-radio bridge for cost effectively increasing the throughput associated with the bridging of multiple LANs together. The multi-radio bridge incorporates two or more radio devices which provide for substantially simultaneous communication between two or more client-bridges and the multi-radio bridge. Employment of the multiple radios allows for different hopping sequences and/or PN codes to be used so as to avoid collisions between information containing packets. The multi-radio bridge avoids the need to have to add a new bridge for every new LAN added to the system. Furthermore, in systems having extremely heavy traffic, the multi-radio bridge can dedicate two or more radios (operating at different FH sequences and/or PN codes) to one client-bridge thus doubling or more the amount of network traffic throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce E. Alexander