Patents by Inventor Dan Klausmeier

Dan Klausmeier 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).

  • Crosspoint switch with independent schedulers
    Patent number: 6747971
    Abstract: An apparatus is described comprising an ingress port and a plurality of switch planes where each of the switch planes has a dedicated scheduler and each of the switch planes are communicatively coupled to the ingress port. The switch planes may further have at least one input control port and at least one output control port where each of the input control ports are coupled to each of the output control ports in a crossbar arrangement. The communicative coupling may further comprise one of the input control ports coupled to the ingress port. Furthermore, the ingress port may have at least one unicast queue which is dedicated to a specific egress port. The ingress port may also have a multicast queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Hughes, Daryn Lau, Dan Klausmeier, Eugene Wang, Madhav Marathe, Frank Chui, Gene K. Chui, Gary Kipnis, Gurmohan S. Samrao, Lionel A. King