Patents by Inventor Bryan Michael Mclaughlin

Bryan Michael Mclaughlin 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).

  • Multicast support by mobile routers in a mobile ad hoc network
    Patent number: 8724533
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile router receives a multicast-supported router advertisement message from an attachment mobile router in a mobile ad hoc network, the multicast-supported router advertisement message specifying an attachment prefix and a multicast-capable identifier. The mobile router attaches to the attachment mobile router in response to the multicast-supported router advertisement message and according to a protocol requiring establishment in the mobile ad hoc network of a tree topology having a single multicast clusterhead, and selects a default attachment address within an address space of the attachment prefix. The mobile router receives a multicast request, from an attached node, for receiving a multicast stream, and the mobile router outputs a neighbor advertisement message with multicast extension, to the attachment router, that specifies that access to the multicast stream is requested via the default attachment address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Bryan Michael McLaughlin
  • Multicast support by mobile routers in a mobile ad hoc network
    Publication number: 20080219237
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile router receives a multicast-supported router advertisement message from an attachment mobile router in a mobile ad hoc network, the multicast-supported router advertisement message specifying an attachment prefix and a multicast-capable identifier. The mobile router attaches to the attachment mobile router in response to the multicast-supported router advertisement message and according to a protocol requiring establishment in the mobile ad hoc network of a tree topology having a single multicast clusterhead, and selects a default attachment address within an address space of the attachment prefix. The mobile router receives a multicast request, from an attached node, for receiving a multicast stream, and the mobile router outputs a neighbor advertisement message with multicast extension, to the attachment router, that specifies that access to the multicast stream is requested via the default attachment address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Bryan Michael Mclaughlin