Patents by Inventor Carl Costantino

Carl Costantino 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).

  • System architecture for and method of processing packets and/or cells in a common switch
    Patent number: 6259699
    Abstract: A novel networking architecture and technique for transmitting both cells and packets or frames across a common switch fabric, effected, at least in part, by utilizing a common set of algorithms for the forwarding engine (the ingress side) and a common set of algorithms for the QoS management (the egress part) that are provided for each I/O module to process packet/cell information without impacting the correct operation of ATM switching and without transforming packets into cells for transfer across the switch fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Nexabit Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Zbigniew Opalka, Vijay Aggarwal, Thomas Kong, Christopher Firth, Carl Costantino